 More than a hundred painters have become famous masters of the art, while the number of those who approach perfection, or of those who are middling, is very large. This is especially true of the Hindus; their pictures surpass our conception of things;...  The Ain I Akbari - Page 105by Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Henry Hardy Cole, William Tayler, South Kensington Museum - Art - 1874 - 412 pages
...of a Bihziid (one who lived at the court of the Shah of Persia and celebrated as a great painter), may be placed at the side of the wonderful works of...inanimate objects look as if they had life. More than 100 painters have become famous masters of the art, whilst the number of those who approach perfection,... | |
 | Pierre Du Jarric - Religion - 1996 - 360 pages
...placed at the side of the wonderful works of the European painters who have attained world-wide fame. More than a hundred painters have become famous masters...perfection, or of those who are middling, is very large." The King, he adds, and all the grandees of the court, sat for their likenesses, and these were preserved... | |
 | VD Mahajan - History - 2007 - 898 pages
...attained world-wide fame. The minuteness in detail, the general finish, the boldness of execution, etc., now observed in pictures are incomparable, even inanimate...hundred painters have become famous masters of the art while the number of those who reached perfection, or those who are middling is very large. This is... | |
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